Re: One not so busy Macintosh.

2016-03-26 Thread Phil Halton
There is carbon copy cloner or something like that, and of course there is superduper. Are you superduper and it works just fine. I have no idea what you're referring to when you say DD". Sent from my IPhone > On Mar 26, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > >

Re: One not so busy Macintosh.

2016-03-26 Thread Anders Holmberg
Any good imaging software out there? Can dd be used? /AC > On 24 Mar 2016, at 02:28, Phil Halton wrote: > > I am in the process now of doing a clean L Install on a test comp that I have > laying around. It's a 2011 21 inch iMac. I have just downloaded the el cap >

Re: One not so busy Macintosh.

2016-03-24 Thread Phil Halton
your iMac from your mac book. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Phil Halton > Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2016 2:28 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re:

RE: One not so busy Macintosh.

2016-03-24 Thread Simon Fogarty
You could just cloan your iMac from your mac book. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2016 2:28 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: One not so busy Macintosh

Re: One not so busy Macintosh.

2016-03-23 Thread Phil Halton
I am in the process now of doing a clean L Install on a test comp that I have laying around. It's a 2011 21 inch iMac. I have just downloaded the el cap Installer and plan to do the clean install tomorrow, and restore apps and docs from a time machine backup. I'll let you know how it goes ET.

Re: One not so busy Macintosh.

2016-03-23 Thread E.T.
Alright I cam try these ideas. from easiest to hardest. I have a 2012 so probably cannot use diagnostics. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 3/23/2016 4:00 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: First thing

Re: One not so busy Macintosh.

2016-03-23 Thread Jonathan Cohn
First thing you need to do is see if the slowness is related to an account or to the entire computer. Create or use a second account for an hour and see if performance lags in that account too. If it does, then I would suggest you try a diagnostic check which probably needs to be done

Re: One not so busy Macintosh.

2016-03-23 Thread E.T.
Was it any one thing or a combination of things? Since I installed El Cap (was not quite a true clean install) I experience some anomalies and may actually do a clean install which I am not looking forward to. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have

One not so busy Macintosh.

2016-03-23 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I had my speedy new MacBook Air (I actually called it speedy), start going into slow state whenever I opened a menu item or switched / added a window. The performance steady degraded the more it was used. Thanks to some wonderful help from the accessibility desk, not only is my computer